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Highgarden and Storm's End support his claim, and the Dornishmen will not be laggardly.† (source)
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Bella was one of the laggards, but she sprang up only a split second after the other learner girl.† (source)
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Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.† (source)
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You'd better catch up with the queen, younglings; she does not take lightly to fools or laggards.† (source)
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They caught the seed virus and passed it on, finally, to the Laggards, the most traditional of all, who see no urgent reason to change.† (source)
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A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more laggardly I moved.† (source)
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Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime.† (source)
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By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows.† (source)
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"I hear fifty...sixty-five...seventy...": the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars.† (source)
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He knows when the narrow gate was opened and he knows it will not stay for laggards who drag their feet in dung and vomit, whose lips are reeking of the left-overs of lesser men.† (source)
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Throughout that first year at the Beijing Dance Academy, I was considered a laggard by most of my teachers.† (source)
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The hollow rattle of the wooden dumbbells was heard as another team made ready to go up on the stage: and in another moment the excited prefect was hustling the boys through the vestry like a flock of geese, flapping the wings of his soutane nervously and crying to the laggards to make haste.† (source)
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He looks down at the back of Jackie's glossy head and he looks at his own trouser cuffs flaked an intimate beige and the spatter across his shoe tops in a strafing pattern and the gumbo puddle nearby that contains a few laggard gobs of pinkoid stuff from deep in Gleason's gastric sac.† (source)
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"Stay here," the young master said, when all were gone by, even the laggards.† (source)
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And again he vigorously nudged the teacher's pet in the ribs to spur his laggard humor.† (source)
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Long it was not until Those laggards of battle the holt were a-leaving, Unwarlike troth-liars, the ten there together, Who durst not e'en now with darts to be playing E'en in their man-lord's most mickle need.† (source)
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